Backend Engineer
Backend Engineer should be judged by owned outcomes, not keyword count.
Salary from
$0
Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to
$6,000
Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs
69
Last 3 months
Applications per job
14
JobNote category match
Published signal
Market-wide
38
DOU responses per job · September
16
Djinni applications per job · Q1
Hiring Define the outcome, scope, and seniority before screening tools or titles.
Candidate Show what you owned, what changed, and the evidence.
Data Market-wide context only; neither figure is specific to Backend Engineer. Use the JobNote number above for the role.
Most wanted skills
Counts of active jobs now and salaries.
Python
7
$2867–$4564
AWS
6
$3560–$5301
TypeScript
6
$3133–$4437
MySQL
4
$2055–$3710
PostgreSQL
4
$3054–$4443
API
3
$2196–$3689
Distributed Systems
3
$5527–$6410
DynamoDB
3
$4205–$6480
Kubernetes
3
$3523–$5481
Node.js
3
$3133–$4620
Data Architecture
2
$3633–$5441
Event-Driven Architecture
2
$3646–$6375
FastAPI
2
$2779–$4347
GraphQL
2
$2773–$4541
Kotlin
2
$3562–$4786
SQL
2
$2549–$3869